Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), April 2011

by: oziumjinx
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We are located in New York City but remote work is totally fine.<p>We are rebuilding the backend of our application on Google AppEngine.  Solid Python/Django skills are required. AppEngine experience would be a big plus. Familiarity with browser addons/extensions is also a big plus (Chrome, Firefox, IE).<p>Remote work totally fine.  We prefer at least 10 hrs a week that you can commit. 20+ hrs would be great.<p>Would love to see work samples, github code, resume, random facebook photos, and blood samples.  (kidding)

by: nickoakland
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We are located in Oakland, CA and prefer a bay-based front-end PHP Web Developer for exciting local apparel company<p>We are currently looking for an experienced PHP Web Developer. This is an exciting opportunity in Oakland for a new apparel company that uses Magento and Wordpress for our two main sites.<p>This is for part-time, contract-based work best suited for freelance developers near the Bay Area with availability to occasionally come in for meetings in Oakland (most, if not all, work can be done remotely). Weekly hours will vary depending on projects/tweaks. Quick turn-around is highly important.<p>Must able to communicate effectively and be able to work well with art/creative director from sketches, PSD comps, wireframes or sometimes (though not often) merely telephone conversations.<p>This is a great on-going opportunity for those with other clients and looking for an extra boost of work here and there.<p>Pay hourly or project-based.

by: flignats
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We are located in Silicon Valley, but remote work for this project is just as good.<p>I am with SkillAddiction.com and SA provides casual gaming tournaments for people to enter into, for a chance to win cash and prizes.  Players view a variety of tournaments and select which one to enter.  Tournaments are free, cost virtual currency, or cost cash to enter and compete; which is where our biggest question is - what denomination, or entry cost, is optimal and attracts the most participants?  We have a bunch of data and are looking to identify and extract key customer metrics so that we can gain better insight into our customers.<p>If you love to dig around numbers and identify cool metrics that help make a difference, drop us a line!<p>[hnname]@skilladdiction

by: bigohms
text: (Developer)<p>Dev to build a MVP rails geo app and data infrastructure ( will be accessible in the near future by mobile devices).<p>Familiarity with the following is helpful to take this on:
* Storing location data in ActiveRecord (PostGIS/PostgreSQL and MySQL)
* Accessing location data in Controller
* How to use open geo-standards for sharing data: GeoRSS, WMS, WFS, WCS, Microformats, KML, GeoJASON
* How to use geocoders
* Geographic data formats (Vector and Raster)
* Using Ruby/Mapscript, Ruby/GDAL, Ruby/GEOS
* Talking to Mapserver (IvyGIS)
* Using Geonames Ruby API<p>or 
* YM4R
* GeoRuby
* Spatial Adapter for ActiveRecord
* GeoKit
* acts_as_locatable
* acts_as_geocodable
* graticule

by: rtbin
text: Remote essential :)<p>Designer needed. Ability to code valid HTML is desirable but not essential.<p>We are a team working remotely (Europe, US &#38; India) on a wide variety of client sites and workload is getting too big for us to manage alone. There should be quite a but of freedom to run wild with design work if you can justify it as useable ;)<p>Email is in profile. Send me a link to a portfolio or a bunch of links and we'll go from there.

by: workwork
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Seeking design and or design/front-end dev freelancers that work remotely.  We need help with front-end design for a professional web 2.0/"3.0" feeling look (think Turbotax.com in look and feel).  Ideally designers that have some (or a lot) of front-end development in them and can also convert their designs into XHTML and CSS and do some UX work with JavaScript and jQuery.<p>greatworkplay@gmail.com

by: baadd
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>(throwaway account) Looking for a designer for design/markup/css/js work.<p>Southern California, preferably Orange County area.  This will likely be a three month project requiring roughly 10 hours per week.  The project is a fairly straightforward web design project.<p>Contact via M8R-p0mf3u@mailinator.com and if available please link to prior work.  Thanks.

by: vgurgov
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
For videolla.com<p>1) web UI/Designer contract. Rails experience preferred. For redesign of our fastest growing startup videolla.com<p>2) Marketing PR hacker intern/freelancer. You will make us famous!<p>If you feel you are 1)+2) you should also apply. 
Bay Area preferred. Remote is possible for exceptional candidates!

by: newy
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Opzi (YC S10) SOMA/SF.  Looking for designers with a clean, minimalist (FB, Apple-ish) sense of design to polish our enterprise knowledgebase product.  Ideally you can Photoshop and create clean CSS.  Local would be great, but remote ok as well.  Send samples and your rate to:<p>euwyn@opzi.com

by: nola
text: developer<p>We're located in Seattle, but remote is okay.<p>Hiring for mobile app development (ios &#38; android).<p>nola1919@gmail.com<p>*To those seeking work, it would be great if you provided a link to a list of your past work and/or portfolio.

by: aymeric
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>I am looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to help me with <a href="http://taskarmy.com" rel="nofollow">http://taskarmy.com</a><p>I am based in Australia and would love to work with someone in Eastern Europe or Asia.<p>Thanks!